Cristea Roberts Gallery Artist Biography

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Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

Howard Hodgkin was born in London in 1932. He studied at the 2013 Howard Hodgkin, Fondation Bemberg, Tolouse, France Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art in the early Bengal Art Lounge and British Council Bangladesh 1950s. He first visited India in 1964, returning every year for many presents Howard Hodgkin, Gulshan, Bengal, India years. Hodgkin spent a period teaching until 1972. He was Trustee Tenth Anniversary Acquisitions, The Modern Art of the Tate Gallery, London from 1970-76 and of the National Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA Gallery, London from 1978-85. In 1984 he represented Britain at Howard Hodgkin: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, the XLI Venice Biennale with 24 paintings and was awarded the Rome, Italy second Turner Prize in 1985. He was knighted in 1992 and made a 2012 Acquainted with the Night, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, Companion of Honour in 2002. UK Howard Hodgkin, Tate Britain, London, UK His work has been the subject of numerous major retrospectives 2011 Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA around the world, most notably at the Metropolitan Museum, New Small Prints: Abstractions in Colour, Meyer Fine Art, York, in 1995, at Tate Britain, London, in 2006, and at the National San Diego, USA Portrait Gallery, London, in 2017. His paintings and prints are 2010 Time and Place: Paintings 2001-2010, De Pont Museum held in major museums and collections worldwide. In 2016 the of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands Alan Cristea Gallery, London, inaugurated their new premises Howard Hodgkin: Prints from the Collection, 1987-2002, with a major retrospective of Hodgkin’s prints. In 2016 Hodgkin The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA designed the set and costumes for the ballet, Layla and Majnun, 2009 As Time Goes By, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK performed by the Mark Morris Dance Group, USA. Hodgkin died 2008 Masterpieces of Modern British Art, Osborne Samuel, aged 84 in London in 2017. London, UK 2007 Print Retrospective, Barbican, London, UK (touring) SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Yale Centre for British Art, Yale, USA Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK 2019 Howard Hodgkin: Strictly Personal Part I & II, Cristea 2006 Howard Hodgkin, Tate Britain, London (touring from Roberts Gallery, London, UK IMMA, Dublin to Reina Sofia, Madrid) Hodgkin & Creed: Inside Out, Kistefos Museum, 2003 Howard Hodgkin: Print Retrospective, Alan Cristea Jevnaker, Norway Gallery, London, UK 2018 Howard Hodgkin: Last Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Large Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA London, UK 2002 Large Paintings, National Gallery of Scotland, 2017 Howard Hodgkin: Painting India, Hepworth Wakefield, Edinburgh, UK Yorkshire, UK 1995 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends, National Portrait Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Gallery, London, UK 1993 Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK 2016 After All, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK 1990 M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, USA Howard Hodgkin: From Memory, Gagosian Gallery, New 1988 Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janiero, Brazil York, USA 1982 Tate Gallery, London, UK Howard Hodgkin: Made in Mumbai, Chhatrapati Shivaji 1976 Arts Council exhibition toured to: Museum of Modern Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, India Art, Oxford, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 2015 Howard Hodgkin: Prints, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, 1970 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK France 1969 Kasmin Gallery, London, UK Howard Hodgkin - Hand Painted and Relief Prints: 1990- 2014, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1984-2015 A Tribute, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India. AU National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Howard Hodgkin: Green Thoughts (a touring show from UK Arts Council of Great Britain, London Alan Cristea Gallery, London) Burton Art Gallery & British Museum, London Museum, Bideford, Devon Hayward Gallery, London Inspired by India: Paintings by Howard Hodgkin, Aga National Portrait Gallery, London Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard The Saatchi Collection, London Hodgkin, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada Tate, London 2014 Howard Hodgkin: Green Thoughts, Alan Cristea Gallery, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London London, UK USA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Massachusetts Howard Hodgkin, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum, New York